RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread B G
Good luck Carolyn with the NSWNA elections. Andrea the conference looks good. Dearly love to go. I was recently elected to QNU Council as a member and also as the only practicing midwife. I will always speak up for midwifery practice and the families we support. Qld members please start

RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread B G
YES YES YES YES you can join QNU I have attempted to ensure QNU Councillors are aware/educated that there are midwives who are not nurses practicing in QLD. You are not the first midwife to do so and some have been practicing for years! QNU put out an alert recently to agency staff regarding

Re: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Denise Hynd
Barb The QNU has a page on their web site about Bullying see Caroline's article Denise - Original Message - From: B G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 12:46 AM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it Good luck Carolyn

Re: [ozmidwifery] Epidural video

2003-04-05 Thread Lynne Staff
I think NOT Mary!!! - Original Message - From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Epidural video Hi all, I know that this is a reply to an old message but I only just got to look at it

Re: [ozmidwifery] re: article in the Advertiser

2003-04-05 Thread Sandra J. Eales
Good on you Tania. We need to take every opportunity to get the correct information out there. Sandra - Original Message - From: Tom, Tania and Sam Smallwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 8:53 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] re: article in the

RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Heartlogic
Judy wrote: With regard to the workload, I have just found out that the position I left last december has not been filled and more FTE have been cut from the staffing. Antenatal education is suffering and the workload is the same. I really don't know how the management (not

Re: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Sandra J. Eales
Fantastic Carolyn. A union is only as strong as the membership involvement. Nurses and midwives have the power of numbers but we can't realise that power if we are not involved and being active. I have been a Qld Nurses Union activist for many years and am often frustrated at the apathy and

Re: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
Dear Carolyn: I endorse everything you have written with the addition of reduction in the mother/baby pair to midiwfe ratio IF a mother/baby pair is recovering from a caesarean birth. As you all know it is not just the increased obs in the first 24 hrs it is the increased breastfeeding

RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread B G
Sandra, What you have written is so true. People like to 'leave it to someone else' or 'I'm too busy' yet are so critical when things don't pan out the way they wish. I also feel some of that behaviour is indicative of repressed groups. Bullying behaviours are so rampant in health many people fail

Re: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
I will be contacting the FNQ rep. Thanks Barb. marilyn - Original Message - From: B G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 1:58 AM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it YES YES YES YES you can join QNU I have attempted

RE: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Heartlogic
Hmmm, you Barb and Sandra are amazing. Both being active in the union and doing what needs to be done! How sensible. I had drifted away from the union idea and hadn't been a member for ages, thinking that the union didn't have midwifery issues at heart and so was no longer relevant to me. It

Re: [ozmidwifery] Bullying - doing something about it

2003-04-05 Thread Mary Murphy
HOORAY! Carolyn, your message hit the spot for me. I get so sick of midwives in all sitations complaining playing the victim instead of getting up and doing something! The more the merrier. Cheers, MM - Original Message - From: Heartlogic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[ozmidwifery] Fw: eHealthy News You Can Use April 5, 2003 - Issue 417

2003-04-05 Thread Denise Hynd
Scarry how accepting our professions are of the safety of mainstream items for innocent new born babies Denise - Original Message - From: mercola.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:13 AM Subject: eHealthy News You Can Use April 5, 2003 - Issue 417 The